Today I have two 70 minute classes that I am in charge of teaching, same format as last Friday, but this time James isn't here to keep the peace and I don't have a lesson plan.
I spent the time before I had to be at work exchanging currency, replenishing my stock of Won. Then entire time I was trying to calm my nerves that I had about teaching.
Once I got to work, I had just enough time to look through what James had covered last week before one of the Teacher Assistants came in, it was time to get a bank account. Half an hour later, I had a bank account, and only an hour to figure out what I was going to do for class. I was about to adopt a hyper focuses mentality when Ji Hyun, the head teacher handed me a booklet.
"Aaron, we're going to be giving speaking tests today."
"Meaning I don't have to teach any classes?"
She nodded, "Lori will show you what you'll be doing today."
My first day, the thing that I was all nervous about, was spent delivering speaking tests. I called out the kids individually, asked them a couple questions, they responded and I graded them on Pronunciation, Grammar, Fluency, Length of Response, and Accuracy (in answering the question). I just had to wing it since I didn't know any of the kids or how competent they were, so I was subjectively grading kids based on a scale I made up--very effective, but it was a good day. I only had to grade two classes, which didn't take long. Most of the time I spent perusing the internet, getting caught up on all the football I missed out on.
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